Graham McIlvaine Career Notes
2014 All-MIVA Second Team
Three-time Academic All-MIVA
Sixth in program history in assists - 3,211
Eighth in program history in assists per set - 9.53
"He is one of 25 guys on this roster, in a competition which is below only the Olympics," Ball State coach Joel Walton said. "And perhaps the World Competition in some parts of the world is perhaps the most important competition."
The roster will later be trimmed to 14 players before the 2015 Federation Internationale de Volleyball competition, a six-weekend pool play tournament for the top men's national teams around the world.
Lloy Ball, a four-time Olympian, told Team USA coach John Speraw about McIlvaine.
“I didn’t know much about Graham, but Lloy Ball was impressed by him and so are we,” Speraw said in a statement. “He’s a left-hander, a good athlete and he had a good year professionally overseas. We had him in the gym and took a look at some video and decided he would be the fourth setter.”
McIlvaine graduated from Ball State in 2014. He was a three-time Academic All-MIVA selection as well as an All-MIVA Second Team selection in 2014.
He ranks sixth in school history with 3,211 career assists.
"I feel like this is one of the first steps for him," Walton said. "He's somebody that is very talented and if he continues to get the right kind of training, that will get him playing with better and better players."
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